A priest visiting my parish preached a sermon wherein he referred to homosexuality as a lifestyle. By which he meant a choice. So, too, my beloved Father O'Neill (to whom I confessed as a child) said to my sister, a few months before he died, that he disapproved of Richard's lifestyle. Homosexuality requires cubism to illustrate itself, perhaps. But homosexuality is not a lifestyle. Homosexuality is an emotion—a physiological departure from homeostasis
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)